First, at this hour, Vice President Kamala Harris finally visiting the southern border. 93 days after she became the point person on the crisis. Her trip comes during a record surge in illegal crossings in the United States. Hello. Im john roberts in washington, this is america reports. Good to be back with you again today. Seems like we have a busy news day every day. Today is. Im Gillian Turner in for sandra smith. Vice president harris is on the ground in el paso. Thats where youll recall that we saw one of the most heart breaking videos from this Currents Iteration of the border crisis. You can see Border Patrol footage from april. Shows smugglers scaling a 14 foot fence and dropping two girls on the other side. The smugglers completely abandon the girls leaving them defenseless, alone in the desert outside el paso. John critics point out the epicenter of the border crisis is hundreds of miles away in rio grande. The white house says el paso was a perfect case study. The Vice Presi
we ll tell you what they re the best at when it comes to foreign dealings and making big million dollar deals with these companies. the shakedown that is also suggested yet another one in these new text messages basically send us money or else. that s coming. but first, daniel penny, the marine veteran facing criminal charges for the death of jordan neely on a new york subway pled not guilty moments ago at his arraignment. daniel penny killed a man. daniel penny won t be the only one on trial. bryan llenas here at the courthouse in new york city. high, bryan. hi, martha. good to see you. daniel penny is out free or bail after pleading not guilty to two charges. the second degree man slaughter charge with a maximum penalty of up to 15 years in prison and a lesser criminally negligent homicide charge. a junior will have to determine whether or not penny was aware that putting jordan neely in the choke hold could kill him. if prosecutors proven that, he could be found gu
weaponizing its attack line on donald trump, but he appeared to have given them plenty of ammunition. let s get the latest from rich edson in washington. rich? good afternoon, neil. much of the respect presidential field has criticized the department of justice over this. they re also taking issue with the former president s alleged behavior. his campaign says it raised roughly $2 million last night at a fund raiser in bedminster, new jersey just hours after the former president appeared at his arraignment in a courthouse in miami. as his federal indictment dominates the gop race for president. i don t think that most republicans support the conduct that is detailed in that indictment. it s reckless, it s harmful to the american national security and it doesn t show the judgment that you need to be an effective president during difficult times. former vice president mike pence told the wall street journal, these are very serious allegations and i can t defend what is
however to interpret it. lori lightfoot, the chicago mayor who has days left in office is now complaining that prosecutors are going easy on criminals. they re making it tough for the police. listen closely to her and to these other mayors. this is enlightening. if we say yeah, the police department is spending this time to put a case on and the judges and the prosecutors say we re going to let you out on electronic monitoring to wreak havoc again. if somebody musters the courage to come forward and identify the person that just shot up their neighborhood and sees them walking bold as day back on the street two days later, what does that say to them? you can t just allow our law enforcement agencies to decrease. we know what the consequences of that will be. we have about 2,000. they get out monday. they re doing the stickup on tuesday. and they snub their nose at the criminal justice system. they re violent. they re dangerous. some of them are dealing with real mental
a lake house. so reporters asked the white house if that s why he s not going to wilmington. guess what the now very familiar resounding response sounded like? watch. so as it relates to classified documents, information, which the president takes very seriously and you heard him speak to it when asked by colleagues in california, i d refer you to the white house counsel office for any statement coming from here. martha: yeah. basically just hit rewind and replay on that answer. takes it very seriously. so the president s lawyers found the first batch of these classified documents at the think tank in washington d.c. that was six days. i want to reiterate this. this find came six days before the mid-term elections. after all of the brouhaha, we know there s different situations. however, there s quite a few similarities, right? so why did we not learn about any of this for months? so this from the new york times. this says a lot. 68 days of silence. why the white house